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B. VOM EIGEN. POCKET BOOK FRAME AND CATCH.

Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

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UNITE STATES BENNO VOM EIGEN, OF NEWVARK, NEW JERSEY.

POCKET-BOOK FRAME AND CATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,475, dated April 15, 1890.

Application filed May 24, 1889. Serial No. 311,985. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENNO VOM EIGEN, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Book Frames and Catches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in metallic frames for pocket-books and satchels, and in the latch for keeping the pocketbooks or satchels closed.

The object of my invention is to provide a frame of this kind which is simple in construction, strong, and durable.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally be pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved frame for pocketbooks and satchels, parts being broken out and others in section. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal top view, parts being broken out and others in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The body of the frame is composed of two U-shaped frame-pieces A A which are pivoted to each other at their ends, said U shaped pieces being grooved along their inner edges for receiving the leather or fabric of the satchel or pocket-book. On the frame-piece A a U-shaped ornamental edge piece B is provided, which is held in place on the framepiece by hooks B passing from said ornamental edge strip through slots in the framepiece, the ends of said ornamental piece B being also united with the frames by end pivots. The hooks B are straight when inserted in the frame A and are afterward bent, as shown in Fig. 1. The part B on said ornamental strip B is bent upward U shaped to form arecess forreceiving the latch. The latch is formed of a plate 0, having its side edges bent up to form the flanges C and C and on the ends of said plate prongs D are formed which pass through apertures D in the top edge of the frame-piece A, thus adapting said latch to swing on the edge of the frame-piece.

On the ends of the latch-plate prongs E are also formed, which are curved upward and toward each other and inserted into the ends of a curved spiral spring F, the central top part of which rests against the recessed under side of the U=shaped bend B of the ornamental strip 13, said spring pressing the latch downward and keeping the tongue G on the upper edge of the frame-piece A in engagement with the slot or aperture H in the latchplate. A tongue J is formed on the rear outer edge of the part B of the ornamental strip B, and forms a check to prevent the spring F from pressing the latch-plate down too far, as the spring F can only press the latch downward until the rear bent-up edge of the latch strikes against said tongue J.

hen the frame is closed, the tongue G, the inner edge of which is beveled, strikes against the under side of the latch-plate and raises the same until said tongue arrives at the slot II, when, by the action of the spring F, said latch is snapped downward, and the tongue G passes into the slot II, thereby locking the frame.

The advantages of my improved frame are that no. soldering whatever is required, the

construction is simple and cheap, and the entire frame is strong and durable.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a pocket-book or satchel-frame, the combination with two U shaped frame-pieces pivoted to each other at their ends, of a U- shaped ornamental strip placed on the edge of one of the frame-pieces and having hooks on its under side, which hooks pass into slots of one frame-piece, the ends of said ornamental strip being held by the pivots by which the frame-pieces are pivoted to each other, substantially as set forth.

2. In a frame for pocket-books and satchels, the combination, with two U-shaped framepieces, of which one is provided with a projecting tongue, of a latch having prongs entering apertures in one frame-piece, said latch having an opening into which the abovementioned tongue can snap, and a spring acting on said latch, substantially as set forth. 3. In aframe for pocket-books and satchels,

the combination, with two U-shaped framepieces pivoted to each other, one of which is provided with a tongue, of a latch-plate provided with downwardly-projecting prongs passing into apertures of one frame-piece, and also provided with upwardly-bent prongs, a spiral spring into the ends of which the upwardly-bent prongs in the latch are passed, and an ornamental strip secured on that frame-piece that is provided with a latch, said strip forming a bearing for the spring, substantially as set forth.

4:. The combination, with two frame-pieces A and A, pivoted to each other, of the ornamental strip B, held on the frame-piece A, and provided with an upwardly-bent part 13 the latch-plate 0, having end prongs D, passed through apertures in the frame-piece A and also provided with upwardly-bent prongs B,

and a spiral spring F, into the ends of which BENNO VOM EIGEN. Witnesses:

W. REIMHERR,

JOHN A. STRALEY. 

